Film fragments

“Dutch folk life in summer“

In the 1920s Julius Röntgen wrote the music for four folkloristic films by film maker Dirk Jan van der Ven (1891-1973): the Spring film (1922), Summer film (1923), Autumn film (1926) and the Zuiderzee film (1928). At this time the cinema was as yet a silent art form and Röntgen himself accompanied these films many times, at the Amsterdam Ceintuur Theatre and at other cinema theatres throughout the Netherlands.

Julius Röntgen during the shooting of the Summerfilm, 1923, Aalsmeer
(with thanks to the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Dutch Institute for Picture and Sound)
Filmfragment 1’17 ”

Onbekende film (Polygoon opdrachtfilm)

Julius Röntgen, Amsterdam, 1921
(with thanks to the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid)
Filmfragment 12 ”

Edvard Griegs Mountain Odyssey

The three friends Edvard Grieg, Julius Röntgen and Frants Beyer during one of their many trips through the Jotunheim mountains in Norway, summer 1891.

From the film Edvard Griegs Mountain Odyssey by Hans Otto Nicolaysen and Audun Kayser. Production: Viscolm Film, Bergen, Norway (27 min.), made in honour of the 150th anniversary of Grieg’s birth, 1993
Filmfragment 8’42”